It didn't help that we were smack in the middle of the Depression and Prohibition. (Talk about a double whammy-first, you lose your job, then you can't even get a drink.) I remember a lot of potato soup at home, along with canned peas, canned pears, canned everything.

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And he saw an opportunity to take his vision and, really, encode it in this city that was able to represent all of our postwar fantasies and aspirations and hopes and, also, gave us a way to somehow ground our fears because we can't forget that Disneyland was built right smack in the middle of the height of the Cold War.

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Don't confuse an area with a zone, however, because that would smack of the disappointment for the zones of the 1980s.

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